I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #744 - Goals and Growth Strategies - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Saturday, August 10, 2024

I live naked and barefooted, very close to Earth and Nature, in an 18-acre, off-grid, clothing-optional, food-forest intentional community (GaiaYoga Gardens), way out in the jungles of Lower Puna, far East Big Island, Hawai'i, and I have for more than 5 years now. Although there are many challenges, I love my life, and I'm immensely grateful to live where and how I do, on my own terms! I would not want to live any other way! 😁🙏💚⚡💥🔥✴️✳️❇️👣🌱✨🤙

Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

As we're coming up on the later half of the year, I am considering and strategizing on how I might still be able to reach my year-end goals of 10,000 HP and 500 HBD in Savings. Amazingly, my third year-end goal, to attain a reputation of 70, was accomplished just days ago, far ahead of the expected schedule. If I had not used my big chunk of SWAP.HIVE (almost 5,300 at the time), to buy income tokens (BXT, DRIP, INCOME, and SORT), then reaching all of my year-end goals would have been pretty easy, but yeah, that's now how it went.

Now with just over 4 1/2 months to go until the end of the year, if I still intend to reach one or both of my unmet year-end goals, then I'm going to have to really put some focus into coming up with strategies to make it possible once again. Since I don't have any desire to sell any of the income tokens that I bought, because they're serving their function well, I need another large source of liquidity.

Although it's far from ideal, I could sacrifice one goal to reach the other, especially given the present HIVE-HBD ratio. If I were to swap my 320.859 HBD in Savings into HIVE, at the present conversion rate of 5.5249 HIVE per HBD, I would receive 1,772.714 HIVE. If I chose to do that I could easily reach my goal of 10,000 HP, but then given that at the present 15% APR (damn do I miss 20%), I'm still adding 4 HBD in interest monthly, which at the present conversion rate breaks down to about 22 HIVE, it just makes sense to leave my HBD in Savings to continue growing. Also given that one of my ultimate Hive goals is to amass so much HBD in Savings that I could easily live off a small portion of the interest (and fund projects), taking my HBD out of Savings for the short-term purpose of reaching one year-end goal would really just be shooting myself in the foot, so it's unlikely that I'll choose that path.

The other main option that I have is to use my next fiat investment into Hive to jumpstart my Hive-Engine trading fund again, as that still has the highest probability of being able to make reaching my two lagging goals possible. The only challenge with that route is that timing is unpredictable, sometimes with long stretches waiting for prices to move back into profitable ranges. Since it's my best option at the moment, I think that's what I'll be doing with my August fiat injection into my account. It's a horrible time to try to swap HIVE for HBD, but I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. So I'll have about 4 months to make some trading magic happen...

Yesterday, Saturday, I left the Flow House, after finishing my Hive tasks, just before 2PM, straining out and blending kefir (kefir-honey-cinnamon-cacao) in the Landing, first. With kefir done, I walked around a bit to take photos for these posts, before getting my machete to go collect a wheelbarrow full of Melochia leaves for cow-milking food. After collecting cow food, I sunbathed on the trampoline in the Peanut lawn for a while, in the late-afternoon sun. When I had my fill of solar energy, I went to the fenced garden to continue with my thorough weeding job, this time focusing on more fine-tuned spot weeding. When I felt satisfied with my garden work for the day, I returned to the other side of the property to take a shower, collect my jar of leftover superfood fire coffee from the Landing fridge, then to head back to the Flow House, to get into my evening Hive tasks, and catching up on my notifications. I paused that for a short while to help Zai move a very large tarp, then resumed immediately afterward. There were far fewer notifications last night, so I was able to get everything done by just after 9:15PM, and get myself to bed by 10:30PM. I did thankfully sleep well, waking up just a little before 7AM, doing a round of token management, beginning on this post, and then getting out of bed to go make my superfood fire coffee.

It's now just after 1:15PM, so a very good time to end this post, so that I can get to a few important Hive tasks, before leaving the Flow House later in the afternoon, to first strain out and blend keifr, then hopefully take more photos for these posts, and photos for my entry in the Reflection Hunters Contest. I deeply appreciate y'all so very much! Until Hive Goals and Progress Update probably tomorrow morning, and the next iteration of this post right after that! Always forward, onward, upward, and whaleward, ho, together we go! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

2024 Life Goals

1.) Heal my broken heart, reignite my heart sun, and embody a solid, healthy masculine, allowing my electric fire to shine bright, no matter what others, especially women, say or do. 

2.) Bring myself and my life back into balance, integration, and wholeness. 

3.) Do regular (naked) integral practices again, alone or with others. 

4.) Dance regularly again.

5.) Work with natural entheogens (mushrooms, ganja, ayahuasca), with punctuated regularity, as a part of my healing process again. 

 6.) Get, and keep, regular deep, integral energy-body-tantric work healing sessions for women flowing again.

7.) Prepare regular batches of my medicinal teas collected from the land again. 

8.) Make my plant nursery beautiful again.

9.) Live as an integral part of a juicy heart-resonant soul tribe community, with deep, coherent mutual and shared passion, purpose, mission, love, warmth, care, sweetness, reverence, respect, aliveness, admiration, excitement, enjoyment, playfulness, work, fun, laughter, attraction, and all-level connections and relationships. 

10.) Make love with the woman, or the women, that I love, every day, as a sacred devotional practice. 

11.) Begin learning relevant coding/programming languages to more fully contribute to the sovereignty-driven technologies where I am active, like Arch Linux, Hive, Qortal, DeSo, and Bastyon. 

All photos were taken with my Motorola G Play 2024 Android Phone.

Thank you all so much who have helped me get to where I am today, and allowing me to share more of the beauty and magic from my life and my world with you, and for your continuous appreciation and support! I am truly deeply grateful! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

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